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State:	Bihar
Constituency:	Saharsa
Total Votes Polled:	709379
Winner: JD	Dinesh Chandera Yadav	399804
Runner Up: INC	Surya Narian Yadav	247359
Margin: 152445 (21.78%)

Surya Narain Yadav won from here as a Janata Dal candidate in 1989 and 1991. After crossing over to the Congress, he promptly lost the next electionto the Janata Dal. proving that the party and not the candidate was what mattered here. Lalit Narain Mishra -- Indira Gandhi's minister who was assassinated in January 1975 in one of India's unsolved political mysteries -- won the seat in 1957.